SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to use a domain for a particular service different from a website. By creating a few SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain address with different providers and direct it to many servers at the same time, each server handling a different service. You could specify the port number for the connection to every machine, so there will never be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for two records that are used for the same service, but forward to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours will use is determined by the priority and weight values you have set.

SRV Records in Shared Web Hosting

You will be able to create a brand new SRV record for each of the domains that you host inside a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform. Assuming that the DNS records for the domain address are handled on our end, you can manage them with ease in the respective section of your Hepsia Control Panel and only minutes later any new record which you set up will be active. Hepsia includes a very intuitive interface and all it will require to create an SRV record is to fill in a few text boxes - the service the record will be used for, the Internet protocol plus the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have default values, which you can leave unless the other provider demands different ones. TTL is short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active in case you edit it or erase it at some point, the standard one being 3600.